Automobile signal device



L. REAS ER.

AUTOMOBILE SIGNAL DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.ZI| 1922- Patented Apr. 18, 1922.

(gym; enammm AUTOMOBILE SIGNAL DEVICE.

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may carry a small flag.

arm throw.

Be it known that L-Lnwrs REAsER, a citirzen of the United States, residing at Reading, in the county of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automobile Signal Devices, of which the following is a specification'.-

This invention relates to improvements in automobile signal devices, and the object is to provide a device that will serve as a signal to a following vehicle, and as a direction indicator to the traflic ofiicer or the approaching vehicle.

The invention consists of a signal arm and direction indicator combined, motmted for arcuate action on one of the vertical uprights of the vehicle, and provided with a hand actuated lever, whereby, when the driver of the vehicle intends to change his course to either right or'left, the lever is actuated, either on the right or left hand side of the car, and the signal arm and direction indicator is thrown out to a horizontal position, indicating that the driver intends to follow the direction thus indicated.

It is evident that the signalarm may if a light, which may be atattery with which all such vehicles areprovided with., The blade of the signalarm may be either painted or it The invention is fully described in 'the following specification and clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawing if which :v Figure 1 represents the front elevational view of an ordinary automobile,=with my improved device attached thereto, at one side, and showing in horizontal position.

Figure 2 is a sectional view through the vehicle upright, and the clamping member of the device, showing the stop for the signal The numeral 'l designatedthe front vertical upright member of a vehicle, to which my device is to be attached, one at either side of the vehicle, although I'have shown only one in position. The numeral 2 designates a clamping member by means of which the Specification of Letters Patent. Patented A 1 Application'filed January 21 1922. Serial No. 530,769.

ed to embracethe post- 1, but with the innerv ends notqu'ite meeting, while the outer ends areprovided with means for securing them together, suchas a-boltand nut 4. These outer members'are each-provided with a hub 5 and v6 respectively, through which -arod 7 passes and in which it is adapted-toturn.

signal arm operation, audit is provided-at a This rod 7 is'the actuating rod'for the V one extremitywith'a hand lever portion 9,

while the other extremity carries thesignal arm and direction the,numeral-1O. r

,The hubs 5 and 6, as stated, are formed wlth slots 11 and 12, and these are in turn adapted to limit the movementof the rod in its arcuate movement, through the medium of pins 13 which engage the saidslots. i

It is evident that the clamp members, belng arranged in two parts, and with the partlcular manner of securing them, may easily indicator, indicated by be adjusted to uprights of different sizes,

and that the signal arm may also be aduStedon the operating rodif desired. Q

When the driver intends to change his di-' rection of travel, he merely actuates one-of the ha'ndlevers, depending on which direc tion he intends to take, and the signal arm 7 i at once indicates not only'that the directionis to'be changed, but the exact direction to I be taken.

It is'possiblealso to attach bothj to the one lever, centrally located, so that, either arm' may be operated through the single lever, bymoving'it in opposite directions.

' The device is extremely simple instruc ture and'cheap in cost of construction, being stamped from sheet metal. 1

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Pati ent'is: I v V 1. Inacombined sign'alfdevice' and direction indicator for'auto'mobiles, the bi tion of 'a vertical vehicle member, with a two-part clamp device attached thereto, said clamp having hubs formed on each part, one)" i r of said hubs having a slot to act'asa limit stop, a rod mountedQfor rotary movement in said hubs, an operating. handle carried by one end of the rodand a'signal arm and directionindicator carried by the otherend of the rod, and a pin on the rod to limit the rod mounted in the hubs and adapted to romovement of the rod in the hubs. tate therein a pin carried by the rod and 10' 2. In a device of the character described, dapted to limit the movement of the rod, a two part clamp member, adapted for ena handle on one end of the rod and a direc gagement with a vehicle upright, said clamp tion indicator on the other end; being formed of two plates, each of which In testimony whereof I affix my signature. is provided With a hub, means for clamping V H the-plates together to engage the upright, a LEWIS REASER. 

